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Spiritual Care with Sick Children and Young People

A handbook for chaplains, paediatric health professionals, arts therapists and youth workers
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Exploring both principles and best practice of the spiritual care of sick children and young people, this remarkable and inspiring book equips the reader to think critically and creatively about how to provide care in hospitals, hospices and other care contexts for ill and disabled children. Written for staff from any allied health discipline, the authors explore the potential spiritual needs and issues faced by sick children and young people. They provide evidence-based practice principles, and a range of activity-based interactions that empower the child or young person and expand discussion of meaning and identity. The book includes stories and multidisciplinary practice examples, as well as many ideas; practical activities; discussion of work with families, and also of the various tensions and issues that can emerge. Based on evidence-based practice and research carried out by the Chaplaincy Team at Birmingham Children's Hospital, the book will be helpful and inspiring reading for chaplains, nurses, play and youth workers, therapists and anyone else involved in the care of sick children and young people.
Preface. 1. Introduction to Spiritual Care. 2. Best Practice Principles for Spiritual Care. 3. Interpretive Spiritual Encounters. 4. Spiritual Care, Illness and Identity. 5. Creating Spaces for Spiritual Care. 6. Meaning Making with Children and Young People. 7. Spiritual Care with Families. 8. Spiritual Practices for Spiritual Care. 9. Tensions and Issues. 10. Facilitating Spiritual Literacy. Conclusion. Appendix 1. Spiritual Care Activity Recording Sheet. Appendix 2. Sample Activity Instructions. Appendix 3. Principles, Practice Examples and Activities Grid. Bibliography. Index of Activities.
The premise of this much needed handbook is that spiritual care is ""easier to explore than to explain"". It does this powerfully by recounting more than 40 verbatim accounts of ""interpretive spiritual encounters"" that the chaplains at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) have had with Children and young people there... This is a useful, hopeful, and thought-provoking resource, which is well worth a complete read-through. It can also, however, be dipped into for clear, practical guidance by those who find themselves needing to lay solid foundations that will allow interpretative spiritual encounters to happen.
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